The nameplate of 55008 'The Green Howards' is pictured at York leading the 19.15 Aberdeen to King's Cross using the flash on my Pentax ME Super camera. The Deltic was named at Darlington with ceremony, performed by Brigadier G.W.Edin on 30.09.63. Notice the sticker underneath the nameplate attached by some wag or other. Close examination reveals that it appears to be part of a No Smoking sticker, very apt on the side of a Deltic given its propensity to send clouds of exhaust into the sky especially until the engines were thoroughly warmed up.
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